# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Sailor Who Became a Symbol – the Legacy of Thomas McSweeney
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Title: The Sailor Who Became a Symbol – the Legacy of Thomas McSweeney
Date: 18 November at 1800
Venue: Lecture Room, Archaeology Centre, Car Park 6.

Event hosted by the Department of classics and archaeology

This lecture delves into the complex relationship between maritime related death, memorialization, and the subsequent emergence of cults in coastal communities. It explores how maritime deaths influence cultural and ritualistic practices through the roles that monuments play in commemorating sailors. Anchored in the 19th-century case study of Thomas McSweeney, an Irish sailor executed and buried in Malta, it highlights how the burial of sailors in foreign lands catalyzes the formation of local traditions and cult practices, emphasizing various socio-religious dynamics. Using a multidisciplinary approach encompassing archaeology, history, and cultural ethnography this research aims to contribute to the broader understanding of maritime culture, collective memory, and the enduring connections between maritime death and community identity.

RSVP by sending an email on sarah.galea@um.edu.mt by 12 November 2025.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/msida/the-sailor-who-became-a-symbol-the-legacy-of-thomas-mcsweeney/200029170911632
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 59

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Msida
- **state**: MA
- **country**: Malta
- **location**: University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, MSD2080 Msida, Malta
- **lat**: 35.90076
- **long**: 14.47586
- **full address**: University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, MSD2080 Msida, Malta, University of Malta, Msida, MSD, Malta

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Sailor Who Became a Symbol - the Legacy of Thomas McSweeney being held?
  - **A:** The Sailor Who Became a Symbol - the Legacy of Thomas McSweeney takes place on Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm at University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, MSD2080 Msida, Malta, University of Malta, Msida, MSD, Malta.
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